International Conference on Romanticism 2016

DARKROMANTICISM Colorado Springs, CO / October 20-22, 2016 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Sponsored by Department of English / National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship DARK ROMANTICISM 1 • SESSION 2 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20

2A Mothers and Daughters Shuttle service begins 9:30 a.m. from the Mining Exchange to Campus (Cornerstone Classroom 302) 9:45 a.m. from the Holiday Inn to Campus Moderator: Devoney Looser (Arizona State University)

• REGISTRATION 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Cornerstone main space Molly Desjardins (University of Northern Colorado) “Dark Impressions: The Agency of the Female Imagination in Martha Mears’s The Pupil of Nature”

Jennifer Sullivan (Oakland University) • SESSION 1 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. “Surrogacy as Survival and Rebellion in Mme de Genlis’ ‘La Duchesse de C*’”

Ashley Shams (University of St. Thomas) 1A  Dark Materials “Loss of Agency as Punishment and Redemption in Genlis’ ‘La Duchesse de C*’” (Cornerstone Studio A, Room 108)

Moderator: Katherine Montwieler (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) 2B Animal Studies (Cornerstone Classroom 301) Yasmin Solomonescu (University of Notre Dame) “Unseen Powers: Of Plague and Fascination in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man” Moderator: Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts University) Mark Lounibos (Suomi College of Arts and Sciences) Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke College) “His Dark Materials: Cheap Nature, Alchemy and the Anthropocene in William Godwin’s St Leon” “It’s the End of The World As We Know It And I Feel Posthuman: Mary Shelley’s Queer Animacies & Affects” Jared McGeough (Independent Scholar) Anne McCarthy (Pennsylvania State University) “Gothic’ Spinoza in Schelling and Hegel” “The Bird That Loved Me: Dark Attachment in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Diana Edelman-Young (University of North Georgia, Gainesville) Chase Pielak (Ashford University) “Strange Science: The Embryological Subtexts of Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer” “Bad Dog!: The Dark Side of Misbehaving Animals”

Talissa Ford (Temple University) 1B ‘Dark Priests and Haughty Warriors’: West Indian Romanticism “Dogs of Darkness: Buckland’s Hyenas in Occasional Verse” (Cornerstone Flex Room 130)

Moderator: Rebecca Schneider (University of Colorado, Boulder) 2C “These Dark Satanic Mills” (Cornerstone Flex Room 130) Frances R. Botkin (Towson University) “Badass Jack Mansong: Marronage in Romanticism” Moderator: Mark Lussier (Arizona State University)

Kieran Murphy (University of Colorado, Boulder) Thora Brylowe, (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Haiti and the Black Box of Romanticism” “Ode on a Not-So-Grecian Urn: Blake’s Portland Vase and the Work of Engraving.” Rebecca Schneider (University of Colorado, Boulder) Jennifer Davis Michael (Sewanee, University of the South) “Afro-Caribbean Rebellion and Shelley’s Laon and Cythna” “Voices of the Ground: Silence and Articulation in Gray, Wordsworth, and Blake” Paul Youngquist (University of Colorado, Boulder) Jacob Henry Leveton (Northwestern University) “Black Romanticism: A Manifesto” “Going Dark: Blake’s Abstract Color Fields & The Pitt Surveillance State”

• LUNCH BREAK (on your own) 12:30 – 1:45 p.m.

2 DARK ROMANTICISM DARK ROMANTICISM 3 • SESSION 3 3:45 – 5:15 p.m. 3D Romantic Terror and Trauma (Cornerstone Studio A, Room 108)

3A Religion and Unbelief Moderator: Christopher Stampone (Southern Methodist University) (Cornerstone Classroom 302) Karalyne Lowery (United States Air Force Academy) Moderator: Jeffrey W. Barbeau (Wheaton College) “‘That Is Also My Victim!’: Victimization and Repression in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein of 1818”

Sean Barry (Longwood University) Cassandra Falke (University of Tromsø, Norway) “Allegory and Other Heathen Rites in The Wild Irish Girl” “Reading Terror through the Romantic Sublime”

Mandy Teerlink (Brigham Young University) Katherine Montwieler (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) “‘By love, or dream, or god, or mightier Death’: Reconciling Nihilism and Religion in Percy Shelley’s Alastor” “Neglect and Childhood Trauma in Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights: Writing the Domestic (Abuse) Novel”

James Bryant Reeves (University of California, Los Angeles) “Shelley, Sympathy, and Unbelief” • KEYNOTE ADDRESS I Thursday, 6:15 – 7:30 p.m. (McHugh Commons, Colorado College) Tara Menon (Yale University) Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania), “The Sound of Melodrama: An Eldritch Tale” “Kubla Khan: Xenoglossia and Prayer” Presiding: Jeffrey Cox (University of Colorado, Boulder)

3B Frankenstein’s Legacy • OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. (Cornerstone Flex Room 130) (Bemis Hall, Colorado College) Conference Welcome from Colorado College President Jill Tiefenthaler Moderator: Deven Parker (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Lisa Lappin (Independent Scholar) “Gender Warfare and Retribution in Frankenstein” FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 Isaac Cowell (Rutgers University) “Secret Convictions: The Shelleys’ Ethics of Non-Justification” Shuttle service begins 8:00 a.m. from the Mining Exchange to Campus Natalie Neill (York University) 8:15 a.m. from the Holiday Inn to Campus “’Enter Fritz, trembling, with a candle’: The Mad Scientist’s Assistant in Stage and Film Adaptations of Frankenstein” • REGISTRATION 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Cornerstone main space

3C The Dark Side of the Romantic Stage (Cornerstone Classroom 301) • SESSION 4 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Moderator: Carol Padgham Albrecht (University of Idaho) 4A Living through Human Trumpery: Teaching Romanticism Marjean D. Purinton (Texas Tech University) in the Anthropocene (roundtable) “The Dark Side of Romantic Comedy; or, How the English Political System Is Rigged” (Cornerstone Studio A, Room 108)

Ellen Malenas Ledoux (Rutgers University) Moderator: Kate Singer “Commerce, Civic Education, and Gothic Drama: Stage Illusion in Coleridge’s Remorse” D. B. Ruderman (Ohio State University) “’Sometimes, in that Silence’: Occupying the Anthropocene with Wordsworth and John Cage”

Aaron Ottinger (University of Washington) “Allegories and the Anthropocene: Visualizing The Romantic Picture of the Mind in the Classroom”

4 DARK ROMANTICISM DARK ROMANTICISM 5 Brian Rejack (Illinois State University) Daniela Garofalo (University of Oklahoma) “How It Feels to Teach Romanticism at the End of the World” “Abandoned by Providence: Loss in Jane Austen’s Persuasion”

Chris Washington (Francis Marion University) Christopher Stampone (Southern Methodist University) “Gender and Democracy in the Anthropocene” “[O]bliged to yield”: The Language of Patriarchy and the System of Slavery in Mansfield Park”

Olivera Jokic (John Jay College, CUNY) “Without Immortality: How to Be in a Room with Byron” 4E Dark Automata I - Dark Literary Automata: Godwin, Hoffmann, Kleist (Cornerstone Classroom 302)

4B Shadow Connections: Magic, Sympathy, & Ecstasy beyond the Gothic Moderator: Wendy C. Nielsen, Montclair State University (Cornerstone Classroom Room 308) Christopher R. Clason (Oakland University) Organizer: Rachel Feder (University of Denver) “‘These true freeze-frames of a living death or of a dead life’: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Dark Respondent: Anne McCarthy (Pennsylvania State University) Enlightenment Automata”

Zeeshan Reshamwala (University of Denver) Robert A. Anderson (Oakland University) “Beckford’s Vathek, Rushdie’s Shame and the Postcolonial Gothic” “Godwin’s Animated Machines”

Ashley Bonin (Pennsylvania State University) Nadia Schuman (SUNY-Binghamton) “Wordsworth’s Dangerous Ambitions” “Before Benjamin: The Work of Art and Technical Reproduction, Authenticity and Uncanniness in Heinrich von Kleist’s Über das Marionettentheater” Peter Gillon (Pennsylvania State University) “Obscure Paths to Ecstasy in The Origin of Species” • SESSION 5 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 4C Darkness and Creatures of the Night in German Romanticism (Cornerstone Classroom 301) 5A The Dark Sublime I (Cornerstone Classroom 301) Organizer and Chair: Christina Weiler (Purdue University) Organizer and Moderator: Kathleen Béres Rogers (The College of Charleston) Beate Allert (Purdue University) “Owls, Bats, and Other Dark Creatures in German Romanticism” Jeffrey Cass (UH Victoria) “Mandeville, the Trauma of History, and the Disfigurement of Romanticism” Joseph Rockelmann (Hampden Sydney College) “Dragons, Hallucinations, and the Uncanny in Ludwig Tieck’s Liebeszauber” Allison Dushane (Angelo State University) “The Spectral Dilemma and the Dark Sublime” Jiacheng Fan (Purdue University) The Dangerous Inspiration: The Magic Ink in Hoffmann’s “Der Goldne Topf” Richard Johnston (United States Air Force Academy) “Byron, Cain, and the Birth of the Sublime” Christina Weiler (Purdue University) “Night, Darkness, and Death in Novalis’ ‘Hymnen an die Nacht’” 5B Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Dark Romanticism (Cornerstone Studio A, Room 108) 4D Jane Austen in the Dark (Cornerstone Flex Room 130) Chair and Organizer: James Rovira (Mississippi College)

Moderator: Talia Vestri Croan (Boston University) Julian Knöx (University of South Alabama) “Necessary Evil: Black Metal, Romanticism, and the Interpretation of History” Catherine Engh (Graduate Center, CUNY) “Environmental Aesthetics and Infection in Sense and Sensibility” Christopher Stampone (Southern Methodist University) “‘I possess your soul, your mind, your heart, and your body’: External and Internal Gothic Hauntings in Eminem’s Relapse”

6 DARK ROMANTICISM DARK ROMANTICISM 7 Sherry Truffin (Campbell University, Chicago) William D. Brewer (Appalachian State University) “‘Cryin’ Like A Woman ‘Cause I’m Mad Like A Man’: Chrissie Hynde, Gender, and Romantic Irony” “‘The trash about honour’: Byron on Dueling”

Jessamyn Swan (University of Arizona) “Byronic and Blakean Influences on Marilyn Manson’s Antichrist Superstar” 6B Haunting and Dreams (Cornerstone Classroom 302)

5C Transatlantic Darkness I Moderator: Maddie Reynolds (Cornell University) (Cornerstone Flex Room 130) Jane Clare Bolin (Graduate Center, CUNY) Moderator: Jared S. Richman (Colorado College) “How to Haunt: Cycling Sounds and Landscapes in Thomas De Quincey’s Suspiria de Profundis”

Joel Pace, (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire) Rasheed Hinds (Graduate Center, CUNY) “Black Atlantic Romanticism and Poetic Syncopation” “Oriental Dreams and the Haunted Nation: Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an Opium-Eater”

Deanna Koretsky (Spelman College) Matthew Schneider (High Point University) “The (Im)Possibility of Black Life in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative” “Picture yourself in a boat on a river: Riparian Metaphors of Consciousness in Coleridge and Lennon”

5D Depression, Anxiety, Damnation 6C Sagas and Fairy Tales (Cornerstone Classroom 302) (Cornerstone Classroom Room 308)

Moderator: Karalyne Lowery (United States Air Force Academy) Moderator: Lori Yamato (Queens College, CUNY)

Benjamin Kim (Independent Scholar) Shaun F. D. Hughes (Purdue University) “Depression and Damnation: Anna Letitia Barbauld and Agnosticism” “How the Story Das Abenteuer der Neujahrsnacht (1818) by Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848) became an Icelandic Saga” Eugene Stelzig (SUNY Geneseo) “Wordsworth’s and Faust’s Anxiety Attacks” Conor Hilton (Brigham Young University) Phantasmagoria as Romantic Miscellany: Capturing Romanticism’s Polyvocality Lloyd Davies (Western Kentucky University) “Manfred’s Sublime of Defiance: The Inviolable Self Against the Forces of Darkness” Lori Yamato (Queens College, CUNY) “Kierkegaard’s Anxious Fairy Tales”

• LUNCH BREAK (on your own) 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. 6D The Dark Sublime II (Cornerstone Studio A, Room 108) • SESSION 6 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Organizer and Moderator: Kathleen Béres Rogers (The College of Charleston)

6A Byronic Darkening(s) Kathleen Béres Rogers (The College of Charleston) (Cornerstone Classroom 301) “Sublime Teeth? Spiritualizing Matter in Poe’s ‘Berenice’”

Moderator: Richard Johnston (United States Air Force Academy) Matthew Rowney (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) “‘A Foot Upon the Stair’: Thomas De Quincey’s Disastrous Transcendence” Christopher Rovee (Louisiana State University) “The Dark Side of Reception: Byron and the New Critics” Peggy Dunn Sturba (Henderson State University) “Coleridge’s Sublimely Gothic Conversation: ‘To William Wordsworth’” Nicole Cridland (University of Illinois at Chicago) “The Anxious Gothic, Temporal Tensions in Lord Byron’s Manfred”

8 DARK ROMANTICISM DARK ROMANTICISM 9 6E Monstrous and Mysterious Women 7C Crime, Punishment, and Surveillance (Cornerstone Flex Room 130) (Cornerstone Classroom 302)

Moderator: Conny Cassity (University of Colorado, Boulder) Moderator: Lori Yamato (Queens College, CUNY)

Lisa Ann Robertson (University of South Dakota) Christopher Satterwhite (University of West Florida) “Satanic Seductions: Zofloya and the Infernal Marriage Plot,” “’Ignorance was the lot of the Poor Man’: George Dyer and Darkness of England’s Prison System”

Justin Young Hampton (University of Kansas) Kelli Wilhelm (West Virginia University) “Gorgonian Romanticism: Remediating Lamia & Medusa in Pedestrian Culture,” “Confessing Nothing: Female Confession and Eighteenth-Century Criminal Conversation Narratives”

Olivia Meikle (University of Colorado at Boulder) “Alastor’s Dream Maiden Unveiled” 7D Disability and Textuality in Romantic Darkness (Cornerstone Classroom Room 308)

• SESSION 7 3:45 – 5:15 p.m. Moderator: Kurtis Hessel (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Laura Kremmel (Lehigh University) 7A Dark Reading “When the Devil Doctors Deformity: Gothic Treatment of Disability in The Three Brothers” (Cornerstone Classroom 301) Fuson Wang (CUNY) Moderator: Sean Barry (Longwood University) “Frankenstein in the Dark”

Martin P. McNamee (Meredith College) Emily B. Stanback (University of Southern Mississippi) “Reading Darkly: Keats’s Poetic Treatment of the Act of Reading” “Pathological Epitaphs”

Eleanor Reeds (University of Connecticut) “How to Begin a Poem: Wordsworth and His Reader(s)” 7E Dark Automata II – Hoffmann’s Dark Literary Automata (Cornerstone Flex Room 130) Jacqueline George (SUNY New Paltz) “’The Bygone Style of Mrs. Radcliffe’: Reading Genre in W.H. Ainsworth’s Rookwood” Moderator: Erin Goss (Clemson University)

Asko Nivala (University of Turku) 7B Dark Religion “Of Mice and Machines: A Posthumanist Reading of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s ‘Nutcracker and the Mouse King’” (Cornerstone Studio A, Room 108) Kate Anderson (Pennsylvania State University) Moderator: James Rasmussen (US Air Force Academy) “Narrative Goggles: the Transformation of Audience from Voyeur to Participant through Directed Gaze in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s ‘Öde Haus’ and Caspar David Friedrich’sWanderer über dem Nebelmeer” James Reid (Metropolitan State University of Denver) “Novalis’s Philosophical Fictions: Magical Idealism in Context” Jehnna Lewis (University of Pennsylvania) “From Dark and Dangerous to Naturally Sonorous: E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Automata, Real and Imaginary” Jeffrey W. Barbeau (Wheaton College) “Dark Religions: Foreign Missions, Religious Pluralism, and Romantic England” • KEYNOTE ADDRESS II Friday, 6:15 – 7:30 p.m. Rachael Isom (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (Celeste Theatre, Cornerstone Arts Center) “Enthusiasm, Repression, and the ‘Darkened Mind’ in Sydney Owenson’s The Missionary” Devoney Looser (Arizona State University), “Dark Austen” Presiding: William Davis (Colorado College) John Wiehl (Case Western Reserve University) “Writing the Other: Encountering Religious Belief and Its Absence in Charlotte Smith’s The Emigrants and Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age”

10 DARK ROMANTICISM DARK ROMANTICISM 11 8D The Spirit of Wordsworth SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 (Cornerstone Classroom 301)

Moderator: Laura George (Eastern Michigan University) Shuttle service begins 8:00 a.m. from the Mining Exchange to Campus 8:15 a.m. from the Holiday Inn to Campus Adam R. Rosenthal (Texas A&M University) “Poetic Life, Death, and Survival in Wordsworth”

• CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Cornerstone main space Timothy Gould (Metropolitan State University, Denver) “The Fetish in Lacan, Baudelaire and Wordsworth”

• REGISTRATION 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Cornerstone main space Conny Cassity (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Peter Bell and Wordsworth’s Spirits”

• SESSION 8 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. 8E Dark Ecologies (Cornerstone Classroom Room 308) 8A Writing and Publishing for Graduate Students (Cornerstone Classroom 302) Moderator: Jacqueline George (SUNY, New Paltz)

Organizer: Michael Gamer, editorial board, Essays in Romanticism Christina Katopodis (Graduate Center, CUNY) “The Dark Side of ‘Terrestrial Music’ in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden”

8B Visual Culture Michael Demson (Sam Houston State University) (Cornerstone Flex Room 130) “Colorado Springs, Beyond Romanticism”

Moderator: Susan Taylor (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) Kaitlin Mondello (Graduate Center, CUNY) “’The Grim Unreality’: Dark Ecology in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man” Christopher Urban (West Virginia University) “Damned Picture: Ekphrasis and the Gothic in Lewis’ The Monk” Maddie Reynolds (Cornell University) “Oothoon as Poet: Constructing ‘Situated Knowledges’ in Visions of the Daughters of Albion” Charles W. Rowe (Graduate Center, CUNY) “Wordsworth’s “’Nutting’ and the Dark Side of the Picturesque” • SESSION 9 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Laura George (Eastern Michigan University) “Man in Black: Benjamin Robert Haydon’s ‘Wordsworth on Helvellyn’” 9A Transatlantic Darkness II (Cornerstone Flex Room 130) 8C The Historical Imagination (Cornerstone Studio A, Room 108) Moderator: Jared S. Richman (Colorado College)

Moderator: Nancy Goslee (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Samantha Harvey (Boise State University) “Strange Science, ‘Unusual Reveries,’ and ‘Occult Sympathies’: Coleridge and Emerson at the Hunterian Museum” James Donelan (University of California at Santa Barbara) “’I called on Darkness’: The Dismal Past in Book XIII of Wordsworth’s Prelude (1850)” Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia) “Anna Brownell Jameson: Skull Collector on the Canadian Frontier” Anna Shajirat (University of Washington) “The Mirror of Fantasy: The Self and Other in the Colonial Gothic” Noah Comet (US Naval Academy) “Harold on Pikes Peak: Francis Parkman, Manifest Destiny and the Ghost of Lord Byron” Aimee E. Barbeau (University of Illinois, Springfield) “Embodied Polity: Birth, Death, and Representation” Judyta Frodyma (University of British Columbia) “‘Sublimity of distance’ in Canadian Romanticism”

12 DARK ROMANTICISM DARK ROMANTICISM 13 9B. In the Light and Shadow of Things Wendy C. Nielsen (Montclair State University) (Cornerstone Classroom 301) “The Anatomy of Romantic Automata”

Organizer and Moderator: Jill Heydt-Stevenson (University of Colorado, Boulder) Frederick Burwick (UCLA) “The Uncanny Valley: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Sigmund Freud, Masahiro Mori” Jill Heydt-Stevenson (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Bringing Dark Doubles into the Light: The Chapeau à le Nevernois in Charlotte Smith’s Desmond.” • LUNCH BREAK (on your own) 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts University) “Lorenzo’s Ghost” • ICR BOARD LUNCH 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. Kurtis Hessel (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Shocking Developments! Prophetic Materials! Professor Davy’s Weird and Spine-tingling Battery!” • SESSION 10 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

9C Queer Studies (Cornerstone Classroom 302) 10A Dark Translations (Cornerstone Classroom 301) Moderator: David Sigler (University of Calgary) Moderator: William Davis (Colorado College) Talia Vestri Croan (Boston University) “Perverting Sex: Incestuous Inheritance and Fraternal Reproduction in Shelley’s The Cenci” Marco Luis Dorfsman (University of Arkansas at little Rock) “On Translating Blake into Spanish Through a German Romantic Voice” Noah Lloyd (Cornell University) “Re-writing Beppo” Amy L. Gates (Missouri Southern State University) “Byron’s ‘To Inez’ and the ‘dark procession’ of Inez de Castro through British Romanticism” Colin Carman (Colorado Mesa University) “Queer Communities of Feeling and the All-Male Family in Mary Shelley’s Maurice and Valperga” Carol Padgham Albrecht (University of Idaho) “Tales from the Dark Side: French Dramatic Opera on the Viennese Stage, 1802-1807”

9D Gothic Modes and Mechanisms (Cornerstone Classroom 308) 10B Dark Words, Dark Atmospheres (Cornerstone Studio A, Room 108) Moderator: Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania) Organizer and Moderator: Ashley Cross (Manhattan College) Mary Mitchell (Indiana University-Bloomington) “So Bad It’s Good: Romantic Camp and the Gothic Imagination” Ashley Cross (Manhattan College) “’Thou art my dew’: Atmospheric Embodiment in Charlotte Dacre’s Hours of Solitude (1805)” Christine Marie Woody (University of Pennsylvania) “Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the gastronomic gothic” Chris Washington (Francis Marion University) “The Dark Side of the Light: Starlight in Shelley’s Triumph of Life” Ian Balfour (York University) “On Some Mechanisms of the Sublime in Gothic Fiction” Suzanne Barnett (Francis Marion University) “And Now, the Weather: Percy Shelley’s Posthuman Ecosexuality”

9E Dark Automata III – Dark Automata, the Female Body, and the Uncanny Maeve Adams (Manhattan College) (Cornerstone Studio A, Room 108) “Dust, Rocks, and Other Geological Findings: Imaging the Earth’s Inaccessible Interior”

Moderator: Peter Erickson (Colorado State University)

Erin Goss (Clemson University) “Melancholy, Gloom, and the Vicissitudes of Automated Gender”

14 DARK ROMANTICISM DARK ROMANTICISM 15 10C Wollstonecraft Joshua Wilner (City College and The Graduate Center, CUNY) (Cornerstone Classroom 301) “‘I Cannot Further Explain Myself on this Point: Maimon’s Obscure Differentials”

Moderator: Grace Rexroth (University of Colorado, Boulder) Amy Kahrmann Huseby (University of Wisconsin-Madison) John C. Leffel (SUNY Cortland) “The Calculus, the Infinitesimal, and the Non-narratable in Wordsworth’s Prelude” “‘you—yourself, are strangely altered’: Wollstonecraft, Imlay, and the Dark Side of Financial Speculation” Rachel Feder (University of Denver) Christopher Urban (West Virginia University) “Dark Horizons” “Coleridge’s Female Sublime: ‘Christabel’ through Wollstonecraft’s Eyes” Aaron Ottinger (University of Washington) Marlene Perez (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “Between None and Don Juan” “The Anxiety of Feeling in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark” 11B Genres 10D Nationalisms (Cornerstone Classroom 301) (Cornerstone Classroom 302) Moderator: Thora Brylowe, (University of Colorado, Boulder) Moderator: Noah Comet (US Naval Academy) Brian Bates (Cal Poly State University) Nancy Goslee (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) “Dan Simmon’s Hyperion Cantos, John Keats & Science Fiction” “Wallace as Revenant: History, Imagination, and Scottish Nationalism” D.J. Schuldt (Carnegie Mellon University) David Sigler (University of Calgary) “Coleridge’s Year of Milton: The Early Romantic Sonnet Revival, ‘The Eolian Harp,’ and Necessitarianism” “’Nor you alone’: Dark Hospitality in Charlotte Caroline Richardson’s Harvest” Anna Dodson Saikin (Woman’s Institute of Houston) Daniel DiMassa (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) “Fracturing the Ballad Narrative in Melmoth the Wanderer” “Resurrecting Romanticism: The Dark Shades of Neoromantic German Nationalism”

11C Corpses 10E Grave Matters (Cornerstone Flex Room 130) (Cornerstone Flex Room 130) Moderator: Lisbeth Chapin (Gwynedd Mercy University) Moderator: Emily B. Stanback (University of Southern Mississippi) Renee Harris (University of Kansas) Samantha J. Vertosick (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) “Life-Writing and Re-Animation: Reading the Corpse as Cognitive Artifact” “Visualizing the Tomb: The Transition from Elegiac and Epitaphic Romantic Poetry to Postmortem Photography” Lisbeth Chapin (Gwynedd Mercy University) “Frankenstein, Graveyards, and the Dark Materials of Death” Bruce Graver (Providence College) “Dead Poets in Stereo” Angela Hunter (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) “Corpses, Convents, and Catachresis in Balzac’s The Duchess of Langeais and Toby R. Benis (Saint Louis University) The Girl with the Golden Eyes” “’But they are dead!’ Graves as Locative Media in Lyrical Ballads” 11D Dark Language • SESSION 11 3:45 – 5:15 p.m. (Cornerstone Classroom 302)

Moderator: Claire Y. van den Broek (Southern New Hampshire University) 11A Dark Mathematics in the Romantic Period: Variations on Infinity (Cornerstone Classroom 301) Katie Homar, (University of Pittsburgh) “Eloquentia Umbratica: Romanticism’s Dark Histories of Rhetoric” Organizer and Moderator: Aaron Ottinger (University of Washington)

16 DARK ROMANTICISM DARK ROMANTICISM 17 James Rasmussen (US Air Force Academy) INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS “Hamann’s Dark Style and the Stutters of Grace” A Kimberley Garcia (Graduate Center, CUNY) ADAMS, Maeve (Manhattan College) “Dark Reading: The Dark Sublimity (and Magic) of Language and Secrets” ALLERT, Beate (Purdue University) ANDERSON, Kate (Pennsylvania State University) 11E Dark Automata IV – Romantic Automata and the Arts, Darkly ANDERSON, Robert A. (Oakland University) (Cornerstone Studio A, Room 108) B Moderator: Christopher R. Clason (Oakland University) BALFOUR, Ian (York University) Peter Erickson (Colorado State University) BARBEAU, Aimee E. (University of Illinois, Springfield) “Uncanny Prosthetics in the Lithographs of Theodore Géricault” BARBEAU, Jeffrey W (Wheaton College) BARNETT, Suzanne (Francis Marion University) Seigo Nakao (Oakland University) BARRY, Sean (Longwood University) “Nature Imitates Art: Reversal Case of Mimesis in Bunraku and Kabuki” BATES, Brian (Cal Poly State University) BENIS, Toby R. Benis (Saint Louis University) Robert Mottram (Oakland University) BÉRES ROGERS, Kathleen (The College of Charleston) “Werner Herzog’s Heart of Glass: Rückenfigur and Reevaluation” BOLIN, Jane Clare (Graduate Center, CUNY) Julian Knox (University of South Alabama) BONIN, Ashley (Pennsylvania State University) “Ghosts in the Machine: Kraftwerk, Hoffmann, and Techno-Romanticism” BOTKIN, Frances R. (Towson University) BREWER, William D. (Appalachian State University) BRYLOWE, Thora (University of Colorado, Boulder) Saturday, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. • CONFERENCE BANQUET BURWICK, Frederick (UCLA) (Bemis Great Hall, Colorado College) Award Presentation and Remarks Larry Peer (Brigham Young University) C CARMAN, Colin (Colorado Mesa University) CASS, Jeffrey (UH Victoria) • MONSTER BALL Saturday, 8:00 p.m. – midnight CASSITY, Conny (University of Colorado, Boulder) (The Mining Exchange, Wyndham Grand) CHAPIN, Lisbeth (Gwynedd Mercy University) CLASON, Christopher R. (Oakland University) COMET, Noah (US Naval Academy) COWELL, Isaac (Rutgers University) COX, Jeffrey (University of Colorado, Boulder) CRIDLAND, Nicole (University of Illinois at Chicago) CROAN, Talia Vestri (Boston University) CROSS, Ashley (Manhattan College)

D DAVIES, Lloyd (Western Kentucky University) DAVIS, William (Colorado College) DEMSON, Michael (Sam Houston State University) DESJARDINS, Molly (University of Northern Colorado) DIMASSA, Daniel (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) DONELAN, James (University of California at Santa Barbara) DORFSMAN, Marco Luis (University of Arkansas at little Rock) DUSHANE, Allison (Angelo State University)

18 DARK ROMANTICISM DARK ROMANTICISM 19 E J EDELMAN-YOUNG, Diana (University of North Georgia, Gainesville) JOHNSTON, Richard (United States Air Force Academy) ENGH, Catherine (Graduate Center, CUNY) JOKIC, Olivera (John Jay College, CUNY) ERICKSON, Peter (Colorado State University) K F KATOPODIS, Christina (Graduate Center, CUNY) FALKE, Cassandra (University of Tromsø, Norway) FAN, Jiacheng (Purdue University) KIM, Benjamin (Independent Scholar) FEDER, Rachel (University of Denver) KORETSKY, Deanna (Spelman College) FORD, Talissa (Temple University) KNöX, Julian (University of South Alabama) FRODYMA, Judyta (University of British Columbia) KNOX, Julian (University of South Alabama) KREMMEL, Laura (Lehigh University) G GAMER, Michael (University of Pennsylvania) L GARCIA, Kimberley (Graduate Center, CUNY) LAPPIN, Lisa (Independent Scholar) GAROFALO, Daniela (University of Oklahoma) LEDOUX, Ellen Malenas (Rutgers University) GATES, Amy L. (Missouri Southern State University) LEFFEL, John C. (SUNY Cortland) GEORGE, Jacqueline (SUNY, New Paltz) LEVETON, Jacob Henry (Northwestern University) GEORGE, Laura (Eastern Michigan University) LEWIS, Jehnna (University of Pennsylvania) GILLON, Peter (Pennsylvania State University) LLOYD, Noah (Cornell University) GOSLEE, Nancy (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) LOUNIBOS, Mark (Suomi College of Arts and Sciences) GOSS, Erin (Clemson University) LOOSER, Devoney (Arizona State University) GOULD, Timothy (Metropolitan State University, Denver) LOWERY, Karalyne (United States Air Force Academy) GRAVER, Bruce (Providence College) LUSSIER, Mark (Arizona State University)

H M HAMMACK, Emma (Boston College) MATTHEW, Patricia (Montclair State University) HAMPTON, Justin Young (University of Kansas) MCCARTHY, Anne (Pennsylvania State University) HARRIS, Renee (University of Kansas) MCGEOUGH, Jared (Independent Scholar) HARVEY, Samantha (Boise State University) MCNAMEE, Martin P. (Meredith College) HESSEL, Kurtis (University of Colorado, Boulder) MENON, Tara (Yale University) HEYDT-STEVENSON, Jill (University of Colorado, Boulder) MICHAEL, Jennifer Davis (Sewanee, University of the South) HILTON, Conor (Brigham Young University) MEIKLE, Olivia (University of Colorado at Boulder) HINDS, Rasheed (Graduate Center, CUNY) MITCHELL, Mary (Indiana University-Bloomington) HOFKOSH, Sonia (Tufts University) MONDELLO, Kaitlin (Graduate Center, CUNY) HOMAR, Katie (University of Pittsburgh) MONTWIELER, Katherine (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) HUGHES, Shaun F. D. (Purdue University) MOTTRAM, Robert (Oakland University) HUNTER, Angela (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) MURPHY, Kieran (University of Colorado, Boulder) HUSEBY, Amy Kahrmann (University of Wisconsin-Madison) HUTCHINGS, Kevin (University of Northern British Columbia) N NAKAO, Seigo (Oakland University) I NEILL, Natalie (York University) ISOM, Rachael (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) NIELSEN, Wendy C. (Montclair State University) NIVALA, Asko (University of Turku)

20 DARK ROMANTICISM DARK ROMANTICISM 21 O STANBACK, Emily B. (University of Southern Mississippi) OTTINGER, Aaron (University of Washington) STELZIG, Eugene (SUNY Geneseo) STURBA, Peggy Dunn (Henderson State University) P SWAN, Jessamyn (University of Arizona) PACE, Joel (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire) SZWYDKY, Lissette Lopez (University of Arkansas) PADGHAM ALBRECHT, Carol (University of Idaho) PARKER, Deven (University of Colorado, Boulder) T PEREZ, Marlene (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) TAYLOR, Susan (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) PIELAK, Chase (Ashford University) TEERLINK, Mandy (Brigham Young University) PURINTON, Marjean D. (Texas Tech University) TRUFFIN, Sherry (Campbell University, Chicago)

Q U URBAN, Christopher (West Virginia University) R RASMUSSEN, James (US Air Force Academy) V REEDS, Eleanor (University of Connecticut) VAN DEN BROEK, Claire Y. (Southern New Hampshire University) REEVES, James Bryant Reeves (University of California, Los Angeles) VERTOSICK, Samantha J. (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) REID, James (Metropolitan State University of Denver) REJACK, Brian (Illinois State University) W RESHAMWALA, Zeeshan (University of Denver) WANG, Fuson (CUNY) REXROTH, Grace (University of Colorado, Boulder) WASHINGTON, Chris (Francis Marion University) REYNOLDS, Maddie Reynolds (Cornell University) WEILER, Christina Weiler (Purdue University) RICHMAN, Jared S. (Colorado College) WIEHL, John (Case Western Reserve University) ROBERTSON, Lisa Ann (University of South Dakota) WILHELM, Kelli (West Virginia University) ROCKELMANN, Joseph (Hampden Sydney College) WILNER, Joshua (City College and The Graduate Center, CUNY) ROSENTHAL, Adam R. (Texas A&M University) WOODY, Christine Marie (University of Pennsylvania) ROVEE, Christopher (Louisiana State University) ROVIRA, James (Mississippi College) X ROWE, Charles W. (Graduate Center, CUNY) Y ROWNEY, Matthew (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) YAMATO, Lori (Queens College, CUNY) RUDERMAN, D. B. (Ohio State University) YOUNGQUIST, Paul (University of Colorado, Boulder) Claire Y. van den Broek (Southern New Hampshire University) S SAIKIN, Anna Dodson (Woman’s Institute of Houston) SATTERWHITE, Christopher (University of West Florida) SCHNEIDER, Matthew (High Point University) SCHNEIDER, Rebecca (University of Colorado, Boulder) SCHULDT, D.J. (Carnegie Mellon University) SCHUMAN, Nadia (SUNY-Binghamton) SHAJIRAT, Anna (University of Washington) SHAMS, Ashley (University of St. Thomas) SIGLER, David (University of Calgary) SINGER, Kate (Mount Holyoke College) SOLOMONESCU, Yasmin (University of Notre Dame) STAMPONE, Christopher (Southern Methodist University) SULLIVAN, Jennifer (Oakland University)

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